Film
The Gulls
1944 · 18m · Documentary
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Overview
Arne Sucksdorff’s short documentary observes gulls raiding nests and stealing eggs with ruthless persistence. Though presented as pure nature study, the film was widely read as an allegory of Nazism—a symbolic parable of predation and violence during wartime. Sucksdorff himself denied such intent, but remarked that “a film that is not open to interpretation is a dead film.”
Cast
Crew
- Arne SucksdorffDirector · Writer
- Hilding RosenbergOriginal Music Composer
Details
- Release date
- April 1, 1944
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Swedish
- Runtime
- 18m
- Genres
- Documentary
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